AMIENS, France, March 3 (Reuters) - France and Britain have
agreed to invest 2 billion euros in a project to build a
next-generation multi-role drone with a view to making it
operational after 2030, the two countries said in a statement on
Thursday.

"This programme ... will be based on a multi-role drone
platform that could serve as a basis for future operational
capacity after 2030," the statement said after a Franco-British
summit. "We plan to invest 2 billion euros in this programme
with a technical assessment towards 2020."
(Reporting By John Irish and Elizabeth Pineau; Editing by
Andrew Callus)